Monday, February 13, 2012

Nothing Left to Lose

Via Blazing Cat Fur, via Moonbattery, via The Daily Caller, readers are directed to an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics which illustrates that a portion of the medical professionals among us lack both ethics, and morals.

The article is titled What makes killing wrong?, which seems innocuous enough, until you read the abstract.

What makes an act of killing morally wrong is not that the act causes loss of life or consciousness but rather that the act causes loss of all remaining abilities. This account implies that it is not even pro tanto morally wrong to kill patients who are universally and irreversibly disabled, because they have no abilities to lose. Applied to vital organ transplantation, this account undermines the dead donor rule and shows how current practices are compatible with morality. (bold by ed.)

The article authors, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Franklin G. Miller, appear as common place and mundane as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengle did in their day.  Sinnot-Armstrong is employed at Duke University while Miller is employed by National Institutes of Health.

Nothing left to lose, indeed.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/13 at 04:21 PM
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